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Ahmad Osama
Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Monitoring an Azure SQL Database using the Azure Portal


The Azure portal provides multiple monitoring options, which are available under the Overview | Monitoring | Support + Troubleshooting sections for an Azure SQL Database:

Let's talk about each of these options in detail.

Monitoring Database Metrics

Database metrics such as CPU percentage, DTU percentage, data I/O, and other metrics can be monitored through the overview section.

The overview section displays the DTU percentage from the past hour of an Azure SQL Database in the form of a line chart:

You can even pin the chart on your Azure portal dashboard by clicking on the pin icon in the upper-right corner of the chart.

This way, you can monitor the DTU percentage as and when required.

Note

In order to see the graph working, you will require some workload running. You can achieve this by executing the Start-Workload.sql file placed in the C:\code\Lesson09 folder.

Open a new PowerShell command and run the following command:

.\Start...
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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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